Re: looking for a bench mark software to test a PC performance

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On Nov 28, 1:54 pm, "Larry Struckmeyer" <lstruckmeyer(at)mis-
wizards(dot)com> wrote:
Hi Jack:

Subject is off topic for this group, but the moderator seems very tolerant, so it happens. :-)

Based on your first comments about "slow to open on notebook", I would suspect the probably slower speed of the notebooks hard drives.

Does the white box have SATA 7200 300g drive(s).

Are the drawing files stored locally?

How about a separate drive for the data files? Even on a discrete controller?

In any case, I would want to see the data not on the system partition.

And I would download and test a trial of one of the commercial defrag programs.

Move the page file off the system partition, defrag it, move it back, then defrag the data partition/drive.

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"Cris Hanna [SBS-MVP]" <crisnospamha...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:e%23jGxDgMIHA.3852@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
PCMag appears to use this company's products for their benchmarking
http://www.futuremark.com/products/

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"Jack" <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:8ec902ff-d818-45ef-a78d-b82b85dc72f2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
A customer complaint that it was slow to open some big drawings using
AutoCAD 2008 from his Dell laptop. So we sold him a white box desktop
PC with very high configurations - 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU,
nVidia Quadro FX-1500 vdu card.

After using it for a month, he told us that he was not impressed by
the performance of this PC. Well, we worked on it a bit, and did not
see much difference from his laptop either.

Can someone please suggest a bench mark software for us to test the
performance in accurancy?

Thanks a lot
jack

Hi Larry,

You have the good point - the drawings are all on the server.
I will run benchmark software on both of the Dell laptop and our white
box PC, and show the customer the difference. I hope there is a
significant difference between them to convince the customer to keep
the white box rather than asking for a refund. After that, I will work
on the performance tuneup details, including moving the drawings to
the local hard for a test.

Thanks

jack
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